HEAD, Barclay Vincent. Ipswich, Suffolk 2.1.1844 — London 12.6.1914. British Numismatist. Son of John Head and Elizabeth Bailey, a quaker family. From 1864 working in British Museum, from 1893 as Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals. Retired in 1906. Honorary degrees of Durham 1887 and Oxford 1905. Married with Mary Harley Corkran (d. 1911), one daughter.
Publications: Edited a number of coin catalogues of British Museum, wrote on Greek numismatics.
– “The Earliest Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian Coins”, NC 4:6, 1906, 1-16.
Sources: E.B., NC 4:14, 1914, 249-255 with photo; G.F.H[ill], D.N.B. 1912-21, 246; *Revue numismatique 4:18, 1914, 519-522; Wikipedia with very brief text, rather full bibliography and photo.
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